RE: [Openme-developers] The race abilities setup version 2

[Farid K. <Far...@ro...>]

Hi all,  

I really like the idea of diversifying the races beyond just the ships.
As I have mentioned to Bruticus, you just have to be very careful that
you are not loading up on one race and killing another.  

Instead of selecting 4 separate items and assigning it to a race,
consider all 20.  We can play with an entire spectrum and really define
it well.  This way we aren't working on determining what positive thing
a race can have or should have or what negative thing another race
should have.

The way Middy has implemented it is that he has made it possible to vary
settings without hard coding it.

I believe the first step would be to write a more complete description
of each race.  By writing it we can use the information to better define
them using modifiers to values.  Then you may find that you need to set
more than 4 or 5 modifiers.

Remember, we are looking to provide diversity to the races, so when
setting modifiers, make it suitable for game play.  

Areas I suggest you do not play with are: xp gain/loss from death, and
taxes.  XP Gain and loss should be generic across the game. there are a
lot of means to promote combat and secure a race from it, other than to
play with xp gain or loss.  Taxes, I think it is far easier to modify
racial relations instead of tax rates.  

Remember, the ships as they stand have some trading settings build into
them.  If we want to make some races worse traders than they are by
playing with race relations, we may want to compensate them with more
holds or more efficient ships.  Of course that depends on if you are
messing with global or personal relations.  Personal relations is not
hard to overcome, global, makes the changes more permanent.

Just as people gain experience and make money to buy ships to pod people
and make more experience, we should make the changes reversible by hard
work.  Which means setting start points that define the race but makes
it possible for the individual to overcome, with the help of their
friends.

So. anyone want to write a racial description?